Assessing the Vulnerability of Key Habitats in New York
... provide a feasible and effective way of working together to address climate change to protect the wildlife and habitats of New York. ...
... provide a feasible and effective way of working together to address climate change to protect the wildlife and habitats of New York. ...
Pius Yanda
... Regional Soil Conservation Unit (SIDA), Nairobi, Report No. 13; 46-53. Dejene, A., Shishira, E.K., Yanda, P.Z. and Johnsen, F. (1997): Land Degradation in Tanzania; Perception from the Village: World Bank Technical Paper No. 370. Yanda, P.Z. (1999): Water Infiltration Rates on Degraded Soils in Mwis ...
... Regional Soil Conservation Unit (SIDA), Nairobi, Report No. 13; 46-53. Dejene, A., Shishira, E.K., Yanda, P.Z. and Johnsen, F. (1997): Land Degradation in Tanzania; Perception from the Village: World Bank Technical Paper No. 370. Yanda, P.Z. (1999): Water Infiltration Rates on Degraded Soils in Mwis ...
2015 Emissions Gap Report
... Actor Zone for Climate Action, United Nations Environment Programme, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and World Resources Institute. Adaptation: The process of adjustment to actual or expected climate and its effects. In human systems, adaptation seeks to moderate or avoid harm ...
... Actor Zone for Climate Action, United Nations Environment Programme, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and World Resources Institute. Adaptation: The process of adjustment to actual or expected climate and its effects. In human systems, adaptation seeks to moderate or avoid harm ...
The Emissions Gap Report 2015
... Actor Zone for Climate Action, United Nations Environment Programme, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and World Resources Institute. Adaptation: The process of adjustment to actual or expected climate and its effects. In human systems, adaptation seeks to moderate or avoid harm ...
... Actor Zone for Climate Action, United Nations Environment Programme, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and World Resources Institute. Adaptation: The process of adjustment to actual or expected climate and its effects. In human systems, adaptation seeks to moderate or avoid harm ...
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... “mass-bleaching” of scleractinian corals [3,13,14], which occurs when temperatures exceed the physiological tolerances of a large number of different coral species. Thermal stress causes widespread declines in the abundance of symbiotic zooxanthellae and their photosynthetic pigments, which are the ...
... “mass-bleaching” of scleractinian corals [3,13,14], which occurs when temperatures exceed the physiological tolerances of a large number of different coral species. Thermal stress causes widespread declines in the abundance of symbiotic zooxanthellae and their photosynthetic pigments, which are the ...
National Research Council Report
... This committee was asked to describe and assess the state of scientific efforts to reconstruct surface temperature records for the Earth over approximately the last 2,000 years. (The full Statement of Task appears in Appendix A.) Normally, a technical issue such as surface temperature reconstruction ...
... This committee was asked to describe and assess the state of scientific efforts to reconstruct surface temperature records for the Earth over approximately the last 2,000 years. (The full Statement of Task appears in Appendix A.) Normally, a technical issue such as surface temperature reconstruction ...
Behaviour of the monsoon-ENSO system in current and future
... A thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy December 2005 ...
... A thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy December 2005 ...
Arctic Regions: Concerns, Threats and Potential Challenges
... through increased access to oil and gas resources and potential changes in the distribution and dynamics of harvestable resources have brought the Arctic Ocean to the top of political agendas nationally and internationally. Obviously economics, not climate change, primarily will drive future commerc ...
... through increased access to oil and gas resources and potential changes in the distribution and dynamics of harvestable resources have brought the Arctic Ocean to the top of political agendas nationally and internationally. Obviously economics, not climate change, primarily will drive future commerc ...
Bill McKibben on NY Attorney General`s Exxon Investigation
... Subnational actors, like the State of California, are already taking action. Kevin De León, the President of the California State Senate, spoke at the COP21 divestment events on Wednesday. De León successfully passed a resolution to urge two of the world’s largest pension funds, CalPERS and CalST ...
... Subnational actors, like the State of California, are already taking action. Kevin De León, the President of the California State Senate, spoke at the COP21 divestment events on Wednesday. De León successfully passed a resolution to urge two of the world’s largest pension funds, CalPERS and CalST ...
Climate change detection in natural systems by
... changes. Its development starts from triangular functions, hence two linear segments, which match at particular change point choices. Although the endpoints of the time series remain fixed in the subsequent calculations, the intermediate change point can be at any year. If N is the number of entries ...
... changes. Its development starts from triangular functions, hence two linear segments, which match at particular change point choices. Although the endpoints of the time series remain fixed in the subsequent calculations, the intermediate change point can be at any year. If N is the number of entries ...
CSIRO_PHILCCAP_Report_FNL
... The Philippines is highly vulnerable to current climate risks and future climate change. On average, twenty tropical cyclones enter the Philippine area of responsibility each year, with eight or nine crossing at least part of the country. The country is also periodically affected by the El Niño-Sout ...
... The Philippines is highly vulnerable to current climate risks and future climate change. On average, twenty tropical cyclones enter the Philippine area of responsibility each year, with eight or nine crossing at least part of the country. The country is also periodically affected by the El Niño-Sout ...
Economic Modeling of Effects of Climate Change on the Forest
... to range from 1.8 to 4.0 degrees Celsius (IPCC 2007, Pew Center 2007). In North America, average temperature increases are projected to be 1 to 3 degrees Celsius by 2040, increasing to 2 to 3 degrees Celsius late in the century (Field et al. 2007). For land areas, warming is anticipated to be greate ...
... to range from 1.8 to 4.0 degrees Celsius (IPCC 2007, Pew Center 2007). In North America, average temperature increases are projected to be 1 to 3 degrees Celsius by 2040, increasing to 2 to 3 degrees Celsius late in the century (Field et al. 2007). For land areas, warming is anticipated to be greate ...
Assessment Report on the Potential Effects of Climate Change on
... potential effects on standard operating activities of the oil and gas industry in the Canadian Beaufort Sea region. The need for this information was identified by the Beaufort Regional Environmental Assessment (BREA) Climate Change Working Group and was funded by Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Dev ...
... potential effects on standard operating activities of the oil and gas industry in the Canadian Beaufort Sea region. The need for this information was identified by the Beaufort Regional Environmental Assessment (BREA) Climate Change Working Group and was funded by Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Dev ...
Glacier shrinkage and climatic change in the Russian Altai from the
... Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) imagery. Data from the World Glacier Inventory (WGI) dating to 1952 and aerial photographs from 1952 were used to estimate the changes. 256 glaciers with a combined area of 253 ± 5.1 km2 have been identified in the region in 2004. Estimation of chan ...
... Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) imagery. Data from the World Glacier Inventory (WGI) dating to 1952 and aerial photographs from 1952 were used to estimate the changes. 256 glaciers with a combined area of 253 ± 5.1 km2 have been identified in the region in 2004. Estimation of chan ...
Climate System Response to Stratospheric Ozone Depletion and
... in the discussion that follows, although the ozone hole itself is geographically localized its associated climate impacts are not, because they extend over the entire SH. Stratospheric ozone and GHG forcings also have very different time histories during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The ...
... in the discussion that follows, although the ozone hole itself is geographically localized its associated climate impacts are not, because they extend over the entire SH. Stratospheric ozone and GHG forcings also have very different time histories during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The ...
Climate change and human health RISKS AND RESPONSES Editors
... lower atmosphere, human actions have begun to amplify Earth’s natural greenhouse effect. The primary challenge facing the world community is to achieve sufficient reduction in greenhouse gas emissions so as to avoid dangerous interference in the climate system. National governments, via the UN Frame ...
... lower atmosphere, human actions have begun to amplify Earth’s natural greenhouse effect. The primary challenge facing the world community is to achieve sufficient reduction in greenhouse gas emissions so as to avoid dangerous interference in the climate system. National governments, via the UN Frame ...
Climate change and human health
... lower atmosphere, human actions have begun to amplify Earth’s natural greenhouse effect. The primary challenge facing the world community is to achieve sufficient reduction in greenhouse gas emissions so as to avoid dangerous interference in the climate system. National governments, via the UN Frame ...
... lower atmosphere, human actions have begun to amplify Earth’s natural greenhouse effect. The primary challenge facing the world community is to achieve sufficient reduction in greenhouse gas emissions so as to avoid dangerous interference in the climate system. National governments, via the UN Frame ...
Design and implementation of a coastal eco
... EbA principles into ICZM and CCA decision making. It also identifies a series of “Courses of Action” that make the EbA principles more meaningful and digestible for all stakeholders (national decision makers to local community leaders etc.). This is then used to focus specifically on Southwest Tobag ...
... EbA principles into ICZM and CCA decision making. It also identifies a series of “Courses of Action” that make the EbA principles more meaningful and digestible for all stakeholders (national decision makers to local community leaders etc.). This is then used to focus specifically on Southwest Tobag ...
Global Climate Change - kelleymarine
... Senior Research Scientist CIRES, University of Colorado at Boulder and Professor Emeritus Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University ...
... Senior Research Scientist CIRES, University of Colorado at Boulder and Professor Emeritus Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University ...
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... Cities concentrate wealth, people, and productivity, but they also concentrate vulnerability to natural disasters and to long-term changes in climate. Rising sea levels will affect millions of people living in coastal cities. Similarly, migration, changes in land use, and spatial development are lik ...
... Cities concentrate wealth, people, and productivity, but they also concentrate vulnerability to natural disasters and to long-term changes in climate. Rising sea levels will affect millions of people living in coastal cities. Similarly, migration, changes in land use, and spatial development are lik ...
James Byrne - Curriculum Vitae - Personal Web Sites
... Professor of Geography, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Alberta Doctor of Philosophy in Water Resources, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Alberta Primary Research and work interests Climate variability and change; hydrometeorology; hydrology; watershed management; watershed proce ...
... Professor of Geography, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Alberta Doctor of Philosophy in Water Resources, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Alberta Primary Research and work interests Climate variability and change; hydrometeorology; hydrology; watershed management; watershed proce ...
Camels and Climate Resilience: Adaptation in Northern Kenya
... Dabasso and Okomoli 2015). The majority of land in the region is below 800 m.a.s.l., where rainfall is low (between 200 and 250 mm per annum), uneven and unpredictable (Adano and Witsenburg 2008). Breaking the monotony of the rocky dryland plains are isolated but significant regions of higher land, ...
... Dabasso and Okomoli 2015). The majority of land in the region is below 800 m.a.s.l., where rainfall is low (between 200 and 250 mm per annum), uneven and unpredictable (Adano and Witsenburg 2008). Breaking the monotony of the rocky dryland plains are isolated but significant regions of higher land, ...